Term ended Nov 4, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 30, 2024
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Sep 30, 2004 as application 10/954,648 · Granted Sep 25, 2007
Base term plus 400 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 4, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2004
Sep 30, 2004
Term ended
Nov 4, 2025
Nov 4, 2025
Granted
Sep 25, 2007
Sep 25, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
400
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
72
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 400 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Sep 30, 2004, when this application, 10/954,648, was filed | Sep 30, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +400 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 4, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 4, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,457,838 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,302,600 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,699,055 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 |
| US 7,275,204 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2004/038731 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,375,597 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 7,852,098 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| US 7,292,114 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 72 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2005 Reel 15582, frame 651 | Anders, Mark A.; Matthew, Sanu K.; Krishnamurthy, Ram K. | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 15, 2006 Reel 18515, frame 817 | Intel Corporation | Marvell International Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2006 Reel 18635, frame 333 | Marvell International Ltd. | Marvell World Trade Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2006 Reel 18635, frame 621 | Marvell World Trade Ltd. | Marvell International Ltd. | License |
| Aug 9, 2007 Reel 19671, frame 896 | Marvell World Trade Ltd. | Marvell International, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 20, 2020 Reel 52918, frame 1 | Marvell International Ltd. | Cavium International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2020 Reel 53475, frame 1 | Cavium International | Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 400 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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